> Bash's printf appears to ignore the \c backslash escape:
This is, as you noted, as Posix specifies.
> When \c is provided via the %b conversion specifier, it is
> interpreted:
Again, this is as posix specifies.
I'm not inclined to change the current behavior.
Chet
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Hi,
Bash's printf appears to ignore the \c backslash escape:
$ printf "before \c after \a"
before \c after $
$ type printf
printf is a shell builtin
Of course the Open Group's description of printf
(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/printf.html)
does not specify that \c i
